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Title
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De la muerte de Eneas
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Description
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This engraving illustrates the deification of Aeneas. Aeneas’ mother, Venus, had begged her father Jupiter to grant Aeneas some form of divinity so that he will be able live freely with her as a god. Venus believes that Aeneas’ accomplishments makes him worthy of divinity. Jupiter grants Venus this request. Jupiter is illustrated at the top of the engraving sitting in the clouds watching over the ceremony. There are other gods illustrated in the engraving as well, one of them being Neptune, as his trident is illustrated amongst the gods. Venus is in the bottom right-hand corner sitting in her chariot as she pours a divine perfume over Aeneas’ body after he had been cleansed of his mortality in the river that he stands in (River Numicius). Aeneas is depicted reaching out to his mother, holding her hand as he accepts the deification. Aeneas then becomes the god named Indiges.
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Image Creator
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Virgil Solis (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:11891
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Source Name
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Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española, repartidas en quinze libros, con las Allegorias al fin dellos, y sus figuras, para prouecho de los Artifices [The Transformations of Ovid in the Spanish language, distributed in fifteen books, with the allegories at the end of them and their figures, for the benefit of the creators]
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Image
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Subject
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Gods
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Goddesses
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Aeneas
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Roman Mythology
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Greek Mythology
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Transformation
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Deification
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